Day in photos: June 01, 2010

A Palestinian militant from the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, waves a Turkish flag in front of burning tires at the entrance of the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh, near the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, during a protest against Israel’s deadly commando raid on ships taking humanitarian aid to the blockaded Gaza Strip.

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Teenagers jump into a sea at a beach at the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi. Despite being a coastal vacation resort, Sochi is scheduled to host the XXII Olympic Winter Games in 2014.

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A Chinese boy, chases bubbles while playing with other children at Beijing’s Zoo park during China’s Children’s Day.

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Egyptian activists clash with riot police in Cairo, Egypt, during a protest against the Israeli naval operation of storming a flotilla of ships carrying aid and hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists to the blockaded Gaza Strip, demanding the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador to Egypt. Israeli naval commandos stormed a flotilla of ships carrying aid and hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists to the blockaded Gaza Strip, killing at least 9 passengers in a predawn raid.

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A window cleaner works on a city office building window in Sydney. Australians working to pay off mortgages were granted a reprieve on June 1 as Australia’s central bank kept interest rates on hold at 4.50 percent, pausing a series of aggressive hikes after turmoil on global markets prompted by Europe’s debt woes.

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Sathaporn Maneerat a member of the Pheu Thai Party gestures with a slingshot while wearing a mask commonly used by red shirt protesters during his debate against the Thai government at the Parliament in Bangkok. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is facing a no-confidence motion submitted by the parliamentary opposition for the current administration’s suppression of a two-month protest that left at least 85 dead, according to local media.

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A woman walks in her mud-filled home after mudslides caused by Tropical Storm Agatha hit the el Pedregal neighborhood of Amatitlan. Stunned victims of Agatha wept by destroyed homes and rescue crews dug bodies out of mud in Guatemala on Monday after torrential rain killed at least 113 people across Central America.

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Nurses try to move Liang Yong, 30, who weighs about 230 kg (507 lbs) and is 1.58 metres (5.18 ft) tall, in a ward at a hospital in Chongqing municipality. Liang, who has suffered from obesity since 1998 and has unsuccessfully tried different methods of losing weight, is in a critical health condition due to his weight, and has been warded in the intensive care unit since last week.

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A man takes a pair of sunglasses with a video recording function at the Taide booth during the Computex 2010 computer fair at the TWTC Nangang exhibition hall in Taipei. Computex, the world’s second largest computer show, runs from June 1-5.

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An Indonesian Muslim boy stands near police shields as his mother attends an anti-Israel protest in front of the U.S. embassy in Jakarta. The protesters condemned Israel’s deadly attack on Gaza-bound humanitarian aid flotilla on Monday.

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Technicians use a robotic saw at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico in this video grab taken from a BP live video feed. BP shares plunged on Tuesday as markets reacted to the failure of the energy giant’s latest effort to contain an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico rated the worst in U.S. history.

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Cedaine Morris waits as a soldier inspects her school bag at a military checkpoint in the Tivoli Gardens neighborhood in Kingston, Jamaica on Monday.

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A sinkhole covers a street intersection in downtown Guatemala City. A day earlier authorities blamed the heavy rains caused by tropical storm Agatha as the cause of the crater that swallowed a a three-story building but now say they will be conducting further studies to determine the cause. Last April 2007, another giant sinkhole in the same area killed three people.

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A supply vessel passes through an oil sheen near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana

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South Korea’s Capital Defense Command soldiers practice an anti-terror drill at Seoul. South Korea stepped up its campaign to hold North Korea responsible at the UN Security Council for sinking a warship, briefing visiting Russian experts as an envoy held talks in the US.

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A vegetable vendor counts yuan coins while waiting for customers at a market in Huaibei, Anhui province in China. Germany has banned naked short-selling and the United States may block banks from proprietary trading. But China has taken rules aimed at ensuring market stability to new, tastier lengths. It has launched a strike-hard campaign against speculators driving up vegetable prices.

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Government employees protest against the regional government’s economic measures at Sant Jaume square in Barcelona, Spain.

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Protestors clash with police during protests over the removal of open-air toilets in Khayelitsha, about 30Km from the centre of Cape Town, South Africa. South African police on Tuesday arrested 26 protestors who burned tires, threw stones and blocked roads. Police reacted to three separate uprisings in Khayelitsha, a poor area of shacks in the east of the city, firing rubber bullets at some of the crowds.

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Women perform with Swahili music ‘taarab’ during a celebration to mark the 47th Madaraka Day held at Nyayo National Stadium to commemorate the day that Kenya attained internal self-rule from Britain in 1963, in Kenya’s capotal Nairobi. This year’s celebration came ahead of the national referendum as leaders of the coalition government, President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga face a challenge of re-uniting people that are split by the referendum campaign. The referendum is slated for Aug. 4, in which Kenyan people vote to approve or disapprove the country’s draft constitution.

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A statue of Lord Bahubali, worshipped by India’s Jainism religion, is transported on a vehicle on the national highway outside Mumbai. The 41 feet (12.5 meters) high statue, which has been sculpted out of a single block of 400 ton granite by sculptor Ashok Gudigar, is on its way from southern India to Bhavnagar district in the western Indian state of Gujarat where it will be installed on a hilltop.